{"id":71919,"date":"2015-02-04T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71919"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T05:03:23","slug":"fan-remasterings-and-remakes-do-you-play-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71919-fan-remasterings-and-remakes-do-you-play-them","title":{"rendered":"Fan remasterings and remakes &#8211; do you play them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil&#8217;s HD remastering has just been released and already there&#8217;s buzz around the potential for its sequel to get the same treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to GameSpot, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi has already said that a Resi-Evil 2 remake is a possibility if there was enough fan support behind the project.<\/p>\n<p>Well, developer and YouTuber Rod Lima has basically beaten Capcom to the punch by recreating the old-school survival horror game in Unreal Engine 3.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the walkthrough of Claire Redfield&#8217;s first scenario, below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flBvR9zl1Zg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some lighting niggles aside, that&#8217;s pretty damn impressive (and really makes me want to play the early Resi-Evils all over again).<\/p>\n<p>Lima has made it clear he doesn&#8217;t own anything except the UnrealScript he wrote, and so far Capcom hasn&#8217;t sent lawyers his way. Maybe they can hire him for the project?<\/p>\n<p>Fan re-makes and re-imaginings are nothing new, though these projects are rarely welcomed by the original developers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few awesome re-makes, re-imaginings and fan-projects that\u00a0have done or are doing the rounds.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Silent Hill: Alchemilla<\/h3>\n<p>Well punch my navel and call me Francesca, as if the Kojima-Del Torro Silent Hills scare fest isn&#8217;t enough to look forward to, a twisted fan of the foggy town has gone and created their\u00a0own mod for Half-Life 2 called Silent Hill: Alchemilla.<\/p>\n<p>The mod skips monsters and combat and instead focuses of mental survival and puzzle-solving &#8211; but it manages to capture the absolute horror of what makes Silent Hill (at least the earlier games) so damn creepy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4iukOtdfmo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Black Mesa<\/h3>\n<p>This Half-Life mod effectively recreates the entire first game in Valve&#8217;s more modern Source Engine. There&#8217;s probably not a single Half-Life fan that doesn&#8217;t know about this ambitious project.<\/p>\n<p>It was developed by a 40-person volunteer team, and was released (for free) in 2012 after being in development for the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37q9DqbZCfg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Jak II<\/h3>\n<p>Even though Jak II has its own remastered version by Naughty Dog and Sony, a fan rates he can do even better.<\/p>\n<p>YouTuber Floordan released a video showing what the platfomer-cum-sandbox would look running on modern hardware (made in the CryEngine).<\/p>\n<p>Naughty Dog&#8217;s co-president Evan Wells got very excited by the idea, but it\u00a0looks\u00a0unlikely that it will ever become more than a tech demo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgalnC_W6P8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Monkey Island<\/h3>\n<p>Another game that eventually got its own official remastering, Monkey Island 2 got a bit of a re-imagining in the CryEngine.<\/p>\n<p>Animation and visual effects designer Hannes Appell created a brief tour of what Scabb Island would look like in a 3D environment. It&#8217;s pretty damn awesome, even if the spirit of the title is a bit lost as soon as those fists enter the scene.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3bInZ7_y4Lw\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">King&#8217;s Quest IX<\/h3>\n<p>Not as much a fan remake as it is a full-blown fan sequel, Phoenix Online Publishing developed a new King&#8217;s Quest game in 2000 that revisits a load of places covered in the series before.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;The Silver Lining&#8221;, this fan project was in development for a decade, and then was\u00a0promptly shut down by Activision after it acquired Vivendi (which owned Sierra, which owned the KQ franchise).<\/p>\n<p>Against all odds, Activision eventually let the game release\u00a0for free. In 2014 Activision got all the rights to the game, revived Sierra, and is now planning a new King&#8217;s Quest game.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/company\/games\/thesilverlining\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.postudios.com\/company\/games\/thesilverlining\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Lining is still up for free<\/a>, for now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4mJESs69QY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you a fan of remakes?\u00a0Let us know in the comments and forums.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71610-best-wasted-gifs-ever.html\">Best wasted gifs ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/71616-how-minecrafts-creator-is-blowing-his-millions.html\">How Minecraft\u2019s creator is blowing his millions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71569-mon-0700-sa-vs-the-world-best-countries-to-be-a-steam-gamer.html\">SA vs the world: best countries to be a Steam gamer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fans love their games, they really go all out to give them a fresher look and feel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":71921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2925,21,13253,2139],"class_list":["post-71919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-hd-remake","tag-headline","tag-remaster","tag-resident-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71927,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71919\/revisions\/71927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}